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Thank you! I did! Its waiting in my mailbox as we speak from a wonderful gentleman in Arkansas. I can't wait to read it!

Does anyone have a copy of this book laying around they'd like to sell/rent?? Its apparently the holy grail in both content and the ability to find a copy :) Thank you!

Yah it's nice to know I can still get lavs from the blacks since I lost my one lav chick! I can't wait until they grow up they are so cute!

Quote: Yay! Congrats now give us pictures!!

So my little lav chick didn't make it...he was still alive yesterday morning but worse off and by the time I got home from work he was gone The others are still looking good though

Araucana lesson number one...don't get too attached....my "lav" chick is no longer walking and has a fairly severe case of pasty butt. When I saw him this morning henwas happy and healthy and I just got home from work and he is a mess. I cleaned up his bum and put him in a place where he can...

So over the weekend, I lost two Araucana chicks, one that didn't look good straight out of the egg and another that was just so small. But the others are doing well, there are two or three with tufts...it is hard to tell and hard to tell them apart. Most are black with dark legs although...

Quote: Have any more babies joined the first one to hatch?! My final total is 8 Araucana! I do no see any tails but I also don't see any tufts although they are still sticky...humidity has been very high here lately. I'll get individual pics up on monday when I get back into town. They are...

And we have our first chick!! It didnt take very long at all, when I last posted, it was just small hole and now an hour later I have this! I am so happy and Beth I can't thank you enough!!

I have pips!! a bit early...but I have one sticking a nose out and a few more are rocking

Awesome ndoles I'm glad to hear yours are doing well too I just hope I get one tufted something to replace her... Kygoatgirl, those are some pretty birds! But I have no idea what they would be called

So this week I got my first Araucana egg!! It is from a pullet purchaced from HinkJC and it is very dark and green which is exactly what she said it would be! It is very pretty and comes out of a clean faced, partially tailed black with gold flecking girl. I would post pictures of the egg and...

Congrats Rob! I got 16 eggs from Beth G. on Friday and they looked great. They were packed well and most have their air cells intact. I can't wait to see what I get! I also picked up 3 pullets, a cockerel and an unknown sexed chick from HinkJC a fee months ago that I have pictures of that I...

Well she wasn't egg bound because she was a he. Fooling me with his complete lack of comb. All I found was that he was really skinny with almost no body fat. Maybe the others were bullying it and not letting him eat.

Yea I am going to do a necropsy tonight I think. She may have been egg bound as they were due to start laying any day. I'll let you know how it goes